Re: [cdparanoia] License field fix awaiting to be merged

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On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 8:15 AM Andrea Musuruane <musuruan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I believe this patch is not correct.
>
> "The License: field refers to the licenses of the contents of the binary rpm."
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/
>
> In the README file there is writted: "cdparanoia (the command line tool) is released under the GPLv2.  The interface and paranoia libraries are covered by the LGPLv2.1."
>
> So, it doesn't really matter if two source files are distributed under the GPLv2+ license. The resulting binary (i.e. /usr/bin/cdparanoia) will always be GPLv2.
>

The issue here is that there's not a way to describe the SRPM license
separate from the binary RPM license. So that information is important
for SRPM distribution.




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